anoint | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, embrocate, inunct, oil |
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(verb) choose by or as if by divine intervention | - |
anointer | (noun) one who anoints as a religious ceremony | - |
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anointing | (noun) the act of applying oil or an oily liquid | Synonyms: anointment |
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anointment | (noun) the act of applying oil or an oily liquid | Synonyms: anointing |
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appoint | (verb) furnish | - |
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(verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to | Synonyms: charge |
(verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: constitute, name, nominate |
appointed | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointive |
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(adjective) selected for a job | - |
(adjective) provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind) | - |
(adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: decreed, ordained, prescribed |
appointee | (noun) an official who is appointed | - |
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(noun) a person who is appointed to a job or position | Synonyms: appointment |
appointive | (adjective) subject to appointment | Synonyms: appointed |
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(adjective) relating to the act of appointing | - |
appointment | (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: assignment, designation, naming |
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(noun) the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed | - |
(noun) (law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment | - |
(noun) (usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel) | Synonyms: fitting |
(noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: date, engagement |
(noun) a person who is appointed to a job or position | Synonyms: appointee |
ballpoint | (noun) a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper | Synonyms: ballpen, ballpoint pen, Biro |
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bluepoint | (noun) small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island | Synonyms: blue point |
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(noun) oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw | Synonyms: blue point |
checkpoint | (noun) a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance | - |
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chokepoint | (noun) a point of congestion or blockage | - |
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(noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: bottleneck, constriction |
conjoint | (adjective) consisting of two or more associated entities | Synonyms: conjoined |
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conjointly | (adverb) in conjunction with; combined | Synonyms: collectively, jointly, together with |
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counterpoint | (noun) a musical form involving the simultaneous sound of two or more melodies | - |
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(verb) write in counterpoint | - |
(verb) to show differences when compared; be different | Synonyms: contrast |
disappoint | (verb) fail to meet the hopes or expectations of | Synonyms: let down |
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disappointed | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted |
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disappointedly | (adverb) in disappointment; in a disappointed manner | - |
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disappointing | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: dissatisfactory, unsatisfying |
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disappointingly | (adverb) in a disappointing manner | - |
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disappointment | (noun) an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone | Synonyms: dashing hopes |
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(noun) a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized | Synonyms: letdown |
disjoint | (adjective) having no elements in common | - |
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(verb) become separated, disconnected or disjoint | Synonyms: disjoin |
(verb) make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of | Synonyms: disjoin |
(verb) separate at the joints | Synonyms: disarticulate |
(verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, dissociate, disunite, divorce |
disjointed | (adjective) taken apart at the joints | - |
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(adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected |
(adjective) separated at the joint | Synonyms: dislocated, separated |
disjointedly | (adverb) in a disjointed manner | - |
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disjointedness | (noun) lacking order or coherence | - |
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embonpoint | (adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure | Synonyms: chubby, plump |
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(noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: plumpness, roundness |
endpoint | (noun) a place where something ends or is complete | Synonyms: end point, termination, terminus |
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fingerpointing | (noun) the imputation of blame | Synonyms: finger-pointing |
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flashpoint | (noun) the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air | Synonyms: flash point |
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(noun) a place of political unrest and potential violence | Synonyms: hot spot, hotspot, trouble spot |
(noun) point at which something is ready to blow up | Synonyms: flash point |
gastrointestinal | (adjective) of or relating to the stomach and intestines | Synonyms: GI |
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gunpoint | (noun) the gun muzzle's direction | Synonyms: point |
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joint | (adjective) united or combined | - |
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(adjective) involving both houses of a legislature | - |
(adjective) affecting or involving two or more | - |
(noun) marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | Synonyms: marijuana cigarette, reefer, spliff, stick |
(noun) junction by which parts or objects are joined together | - |
(noun) a disreputable place of entertainment | - |
(noun) (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Synonyms: articulatio, articulation |
(noun) a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion | Synonyms: roast |
(noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: articulation, join, junction, juncture |
(verb) fasten with a joint | - |
(verb) separate (meat) at the joint | - |
(verb) provide with a joint | Synonyms: articulate |
(verb) fit as if by joints | - |
jointed | (adjective) having joints or jointed segments | - |
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jointer | (noun) a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together | Synonyms: jointer plane, jointing plane, long plane |
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jointly | (adverb) in conjunction with; combined | Synonyms: collectively, conjointly, together with |
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(adverb) in collaboration or cooperation | - |
jointure | (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: conjugation, unification, union, uniting |
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(noun) (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower | Synonyms: legal jointure |
jointworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: strawworm |
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midpoint | (noun) a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure | Synonyms: center, centre |
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needlepoint | (noun) embroidery consisting of allover embroidered canvas resembling tapestry | Synonyms: needlepoint embroidery |
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(noun) lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern | Synonyms: point lace |
nonappointive | (adjective) filled by popular election rather than by appointment | - |
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ointment | (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, salve, unction, unguent |
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(noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | Synonyms: cream, emollient |
outpoint | (verb) score more points than one's opponents | Synonyms: outscore |
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(verb) sail closer to the wind than | - |
pinpoint | (noun) the sharp point of a pin | - |
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(noun) a very small spot | Synonyms: speck |
(noun) a very brief moment | - |
(verb) locate exactly | Synonyms: nail |
point | (noun) sharp end | - |
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(noun) a wall socket | Synonyms: power point |
(noun) the gun muzzle's direction | Synonyms: gunpoint |
(noun) a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs | Synonyms: breaker point, distributor point |
(noun) the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip | Synonyms: pointedness |
(noun) an outstanding characteristic | Synonyms: spot |
(noun) a distinguishing or individuating characteristic | - |
(noun) a geometric element that has position but no extension | - |
(noun) an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: detail, item |
(noun) the object of an activity | - |
(noun) a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | Synonyms: full point, full stop, period, stop |
(noun) a brief version of the essential meaning of something | - |
(noun) a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer | Synonyms: head |
(noun) a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list | Synonyms: item |
(noun) the dot at the left of a decimal fraction | Synonyms: decimal point, percentage point |
(noun) the precise location of something; a spatially limited location | - |
(noun) a promontory extending out into a large body of water | - |
(noun) one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan | - |
(noun) a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch | - |
(noun) the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest | - |
(noun) any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass | Synonyms: compass point |
(noun) a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect | - |
(noun) a V shape | Synonyms: peak, tip |
(noun) a very small circular shape | Synonyms: dot |
(noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, level, stage |
(noun) an instant of time | Synonyms: point in time |
(verb) give a point to | Synonyms: sharpen, taper |
(verb) repair the joints of bricks | Synonyms: repoint |
(verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, indicate, show |
(verb) indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle | - |
(verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, indicate, signal |
(verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: charge, level |
(verb) be positionable in a specified manner | - |
(verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, place, target |
(verb) mark with diacritics | - |
(verb) mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes | - |
(verb) mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics | - |
(verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, steer |
(verb) sail close to the wind | Synonyms: luff |
(verb) be oriented | Synonyms: orient |
pointed | (adjective) having a point | - |
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(adjective) direct and obvious in meaning or reference; often unpleasant | - |
pointedly | (adverb) in such a manner as to make something clearly evident | - |
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pointedness | (noun) the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip | Synonyms: point |
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(noun) the quality of being obviously directed at a particular person or thing | - |
pointel | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graver, graving tool, pointrel |
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pointer | (noun) a strong slender smooth-haired dog of Spanish origin having a white coat with brown or black patches; scents out and points to game | Synonyms: Spanish pointer |
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(noun) an indicator as on a dial | - |
(noun) (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions | Synonyms: cursor |
(noun) a mark to indicate a direction or relation | Synonyms: arrow |
pointfulness | (noun) The state or condition of having meaning, relevance or force. | - |
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pointillism | (noun) a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France | - |
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(noun) a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France | - |
pointillist | (adjective) of or relating to pointillism | Synonyms: pointillistic |
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(noun) a painter who uses the technique of pointillism | - |
pointillistic | (adjective) of or relating to pointillism | Synonyms: pointillist |
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pointless | (adjective) not having a point especially a sharp point | Synonyms: unpointed |
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(adjective) having no points scores | Synonyms: goalless, hitless, scoreless |
(adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted |
pointlessly | (adverb) in a pointless manner | - |
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pointlessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, senselessness, vacuity |
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pointrel | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graver, graving tool, pointel |
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pointsman | (noun) a policeman stationed at an intersection to direct traffic | - |
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repoint | (verb) repair the joints of bricks | Synonyms: point |
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silverpoint | (noun) a drawing made on specially prepared paper with an instrument having a silver tip (15th and 16th centuries) | - |
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spearpoint | (noun) the head and sharpened point of a spear | Synonyms: spear-point, spearhead |
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standpoint | (noun) a mental position from which things are viewed | Synonyms: point of view, stand, viewpoint |
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subpoint | (noun) A point (proposition in a debate etc.) that forms part of a larger point. | - |
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unjointed | (adjective) without joints or jointed segments | - |
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unpointed | (adjective) not having a point especially a sharp point | Synonyms: pointless |
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unpointedness | (noun) the property of having only a dull tip (if any) | - |
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viewpoint | (noun) a mental position from which things are viewed | Synonyms: point of view, stand, standpoint |
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(noun) a place from which something can be viewed | Synonyms: vantage point |
wellpoint | (noun) a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area | Synonyms: well point |
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